The first revolutionary act is to call things by their true names. So said Rosa Luxemburg, not to mention Confucius, who referred to this act as the rectification of names.
Here goes: the Republican strategy is to strangle any attempt to respond effectively to the “financial collapse” — true name: depression — so that the catastrophe will grow into the worst it can be, which the Republicans will then blame on their “bipartisan” — true name, gutless — colleagues, the “Democrats” — true name, corporate tools — and thus reinfect the body politic with “conservatism” — true name, sociopathy.
May I have the next slide, please?